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Stock Market Game - Part 2

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Yesterday I shared with you information about the Stock Market Game for students across the country. During the next 10 weeks I'll update you on how the teams I'm mentoring at Charlotte Latin in Charlotte , NC are doing in the competition and what the students are learning.

The next 3 stocks I put into my portfolio and the factors I considered are as follows:

1 - Wall Street brokerages have written 25 buy and 21 hold recommendations for their clients to consider

2 - Sales are projected to increase by 33.40% this year and 18.50% next year

3- Earnings are estimated to increase by 44.10% this year, 5.50% next year and 21.46% annually for the next 5 years

Investor Sentiment on Motley Fool:

1 - CAPS members vote 4,402 to 986 that the stock will beat the market

2 - All Stars vote 972 to 250

Over the next few days I share with you all 10 stocks and the reasons you should put them on your watch lists.

Jim Van Meerten is a professional investor with over 40 year experience in investing in stocks, mutual funds and ETFs. He shares his knowledge on Barchart in his daily blogs -- Barchart Portfolio Blogs.